Chicago: Two misunderstanders of Islam charged for jihad terror plots

Cartoon Rage Update. "US charges two over 'terror plot,'" from the BBC, October 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Two men in the US city of Chicago have been charged with planning attacks on foreign targets, the US justice department has said.

David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, were both arrested earlier this month.

Among their alleged targets was a Danish newspaper that printed a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, sparking angry protests from Muslims.

Prosecutors say Mr Headley travelled to Denmark twice to plan an attack.

The justice department said it had uncovered "a serious plot against overseas targets".

Mr Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006, was arrested on 3 October as he was about to travel to Pakistan.

He has been charged with "conspiracy to commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming" outside the US and also with conspiracy to provide material support for the attack.

Prosecutors allege he visited the Copenhagen and Arhus offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which printed the cartoons, for surveillance purposes.

The charge sheet alleges he also travelled to Pakistan to meet members of the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba....

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Interesting that this Moslem went so far as to change his name in an attempt to be more stealthy.

Related to the topic, are the "cartoonish" troubles Danish citizens have when they travel to Muslim countries. Danes are not exactly welcome... actually they are being discriminated.

Danish people with names similar to those of the cartoonists, have difficulties entering Middle Eastern countries. From jp.dk (in my translation);

"Cartoonist names denied entry"

By MATHIAS STIGSGAARD

12.10.09

A number of ordinary Danish names makes it impossible to travel to countries in the Middle East. A man from Hadsten got his 60-year birthday spoiled, when he was stopped in Beirut airport.

The birthday journey to Beirut was a short one of it's kind for Poul Erik Poulsen.

Ha was otherwise going to the capital of Lebanon to celebrate his 60-year birthday with his wife and some friends who had just moved to town.

But that far the Lebanese authorities didn't think Poul Erik Poulsen should be allowed to come.

When he left the plane at two o'clock at night and came to the passport control, he was taken away to a closed office.

Not welcome here.

"There was 5 people sitting. The only thing they told me was that I wasn't allowed to travel into the country" tells Poul Erik Poulsen to jp.dk.

He was therefore taken to the next plane and charged 146 dollars to have his planeticket changed. 20 minutes later he was again sitting in a plane seat and on his way out of the country.

His wife didn't get the same offer though - she should just continue her trip as normal and wasn't allowed to travel with him back.

"It's not very funny to stand there with two suitcases and be taken back out to the plane, while my wife has to stay in the country" remembers Poul Erik Poulsen.

The reason: Wrong name.

The reason, that Lebanon is a closed country for the soon 60-year old man from Hadsten, he wasn't told before he landed in Frankfurt and got in touch with Danish authorities.

"I wasn't allowed in, because I have the same name as one of those who drew Mohammad in the Jyllands-Posten. So that rules out the possibility of me going to the Middle East" he explains.

The foreign ministry has afterwards tried to solve the delicate matter, but so far there has been no decision made.

The cartoonist knew nothing.

The cartoonist Poul Erik Poulsen, who made one of the 12 cartoons that was published in Jyllands-Posten in september 2005, wasn't aware that entry for Danes that share his name, isn't allowed.

"I have been told that I and the other cartoonists can't go to the Middle East, but I've never heard of such a thing" tells the cartoonist.

Poul Erik Poulsen, who couldn't get through pass control, ended up celebrating the day in Denmark with his daughters, while he was in contact with his wife on the phone in Beirut.

"It's absurd that one can be taken hostage for something like that" he says.

Won't try again.

He still doesn't know if he will get any compensation for his wrecked journey, but he hopes that he will be removed from the blacklist of the Lebanese authorities.

Even if it happens, one shouldn't expect to see him in Beirut some other time.

"No, I couldn't dream about going down there some other time" he says.

For other people, who share names with Poul Erik Poulsen, Kurt Westergaard and the other 10 cartoonists, there apparently aren't any prospects of a trip to the Middle East anytime soon.

http://jp.dk/indland/article1848427.ece

"Two men..." -- start of the article.

Yep, two men. Just two ordinary guys off the street. Could have been anyone, you know, two Irish or Italian guys, or a couple of Iowa farm kids. Probably devout Christians, actually, and their trip to Pakistan to meet with Lashkar-e-Taiba was just an exercise in interfaith dialog...

Islamophobia Alert! Paging Ibrahim Hooper (from a Chicago news site):

In October 2008, authorities say Headley, using the name Daood Gilani, posted a message to a Yahoo group called “abdalians.”

According to the charges made public today, the posting read: “Everything is not a joke . . . We are not rehearsing a skit on Saturday Night Live. Making fun of Islam is making fun of Rasoosallah SAW (Messenger of Allah, Peace be on Him) . . . Call me old-fashioned but I feel disposed towards violence for the offending parties, be they cartoonists from Denmark or Sherry Jones (Author of Jewel Medina) or Irshad Manji . . . They never started debates with folks who slandered our Prophet, they took violent action. Even if God doesn’t give us the opportunity to bring our intentions to fruition, we will claim ajr (a religious reward) for it . . ."

"David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, were both arrested earlier this month."

48 and 49? Kind of long in the tooth to be engaging in punk jihadism. Must we generate yet another category -- "Mid-Life Crisis Jihad"?

So it appears that now we know why the FBI raided that meat-packing plant....where's Styrer?

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